Best 209 quotes in «opera quotes» category

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight.

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.